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~~ ---- place in Judaea, the southern tion, > "Place. -- John's preaching took of Palestine, which included the tity of 'Jerusalem, though most of it was. prohably done on the eastern side of Judaea in the Wilderness near the Jordan River, where also Christ was baptized, and somewhére near which, possibly on the eastern side -of the | Jordan River, he was tempted. 1, The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. hia verse is a super scription or title, not for the first: fifteen verses of Mark's Gospel, but for the entire book. All that Mark records, may be considered only as the beginning of the gospel of Christ. The word "gospel" meant simply good news." In the phrase "the gos- pel of Jesus Christ" we are to under- stand the preposition "of" tv mean "the gospel which concerns the Lord Jesus Christ," the message of good new. which men would never have . hear, and which never would have had an existence, except through the life and work-of Jesus Christ. In the very title "Jesus Christ" is the Jospel deeply embedded, for the fact that there would come One to deliver his people, a prophet speaking for God, all are to be taken as not only good news, but the greatest of good news, iThe. Son of God. ..early Clristians knew the Lord Jesus to be the.very Son of God, partaking -- of God's nature, of his power, of his holiness, of his. wisdom, the: only be- gotten Son of the Father, : Sh John the Baptist 2. Even as it is, written in Isaiah the prophet.: The two passages here * quoted 'aré from Mal. 8:1 and Isa. 40:3." Professor Lenski well reminds us that Mark, by referring only to Isaiah; and indeed the form of this prophet's words makes them most * valuable), The words from Malachi and;added.ias of life nature. 'Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare the way." The Fa- ther is actually speaking to the Son concerning the messenger who was to precede him and prepare for his com- ing, ~ 8, The_voice of-one crying in the wilderness, Literally, the wilderness here referred to was that great desert including the whole eastern portion of Judaea, 'and extending on both sides of the Jordan River. "In this very wilderness Elijah made his last appearance, John was a living illus- - tration of how little man really needs - here below, something we are prone to forget." 'Make ye ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Jose- phus, when describing a march of Vespasian, says that with the van- guard of an Oriental procession were 'such as were to make the road even and straight, and, if it were anywhere rough and hard to be passed over, to plane it, and to cut down the woods that hindered their march, that the army might not be tired'."--Thomas M. Lindsay. © 4. John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. The word "repentance" means "to turfi around," - "to change one's mind," "to reverse one's attitude and verdict." It is not here said that baptism will secure the remission of sins, but that baptism was a public recognition that the. heart had- re- pented of sin. Baptism for adults, unless there is repentance and a washing 'away of sins by the Lord Jesus, is of no value whatever, but really a mockery, 6. And John was clothed with cam- el's hair, . This probably means that John wore a long, loose robe woven from camel's hair, a garment of coarse texture often worn by the ex- treme poor. And had a leathern girdle about his loins. : "The. girdle kept the robe from flapping apart, and enabled it to be tucked up for rapid walking." ~ 8. And did eat locusts and wild honey, "The law permitted the use, for food, of locusts and certain large Qxinds of grasshopper.' TA 1 1 'There. Cometh After Mo" 7. And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, John here implies that he too is strong, the divine strength of the word having been given to him, The latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose, In an Ol iental Household it was the ask of the slave to stovp down and oe ngs which bound the sandals of a guest or the slave's mas- ter to their feet, and John here ack- nowledges that there is such an in- finite difference between Christ in all of his glory and perfectness and him- | self in all of his human limitations Mark and the | y though he is ant of t, it is ao Sadly the ace of God that he is such, for in himself he is not worthy even to perform a me- nial task for the Lord Jesus Christ. 8, 1 baptized you in water; but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit, The contrast between the work of the Baptist and that of the Messiah amounts to this, that the mightier One who is to follow John will do the real work of which the Baptist is able to perform only the sign. Water cleanses only the body. But 'the Holy - Spirit is the element in which man is cleansed inwardly and really, and it is this real baptism which the coming One was to per- form." : / Jesus Baptized. 9. And it came to pass in those "days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee. Nazareth was located: midway between the Lake of Galilee and the Mediterranean Sea. And was baptized of John in the Jordan. 'Jesus recognizes that the office of John was of divine appointment. Though he had personal need of 'baptism, by refusi:g or neglecting it 'he would (if he had not been baptiz- ed) have cast discredit upon the work of John." Furthermore, our Lord formally identified himself with the human race in its sin and degra- dation. 10. And straightway. Coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent asunder, and the Spirit as a dove descending upon him. The appear- ance of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove is indicative of the gentle- ness and pureness of the One upon whom the Holy Spirit rested. 11, And a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art 'my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased, This is the first of three declarations heard from heaven; the second being at the transfiguration and the third being just before the passion of our Lord. There can be no question that the voice here heard was the voice of nore other than God the Father. Of no other: person in all history: were these words spoken from 'heav- en, or could they be literally true. And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness. The strong urge of the Spirit met the con- sent of Jesus, . He did not go into this temptation against his will. Yet Je- sus did not throw himself into this temptation of his' own accord. . Jesus was brought into it by his Father's own Spirit. This means that his temptation had to be, and at this very time . It was God's will to have his .Son's ministry . begin with this mighty battle against Satan and with the resultant victory. : 13. And he was in the wilderness forty days. Forty is almost always in the Scriptures used as a symbol of testing, of trial, of suffering, of pun- ishment. Christ could not.be tempt- ed in his divine nature, for God can never be tempted to evil. The temp- tation relates only to the human na- ture of the Lord Jesus. And he was with the wild beasts. By inserting this phrase Mark probably intends only to emphasize the loneliness and the wildness of the environment in which Jesus was tempted, 'And the angels ministered unto him, ~ : An Austrian, asking for divorce, said "My wife's skirts are far too short, She doesn't seem to mind how much of her legs she shows when the wind blows." She produced evidence that she was merely being fashion- ---- = -- -- Pn Cae 3 Using a new type plane, a modern Santa Claus finds this new flivver plane adequate in making his annual visit - L i wh hia 'es 8 From Hollywood comes word that Mickey Mouse, with Minnie, and oth: ers of his famous gang, is starting a geries of programs on Sundays from the Mickey House Theatre of the Afr, which is aired over the coast-to-coast NBC-Red Network from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m, It's a little over six years, now, that Mickey has Leen bringing smiles and hearty laughs to movie patrons and devotees of the comic strips, but now he comes in voice directly into the homes of radio listeners to enliven their Sunday afternoons. Behind the voices of Mickey and his gang will be the music of Ielix Mills, noted Holly: wood musician," Bringing' Mickey to the radio is another leaf'in Walt Dis- ney's crown of laurel. 'Already, the antics of the lovable comics have creator, A native of Chicago, Di found the study of art a troubles problem" in 'his youth, and 'it wasf{ | / until le 'left his native city and B&t- tled in Kansas: City. that Mickey was born. -It-was, there that the firat Mick- oy. Mouse movie was created, The working staff of the Disney studios at that time was Walt and his brother, Rol. Today, the Disney studios em- ploy six hundred persons. * J [J The two piano team of Lou Snyder and Murray Ross, playing under the name of 'The Sophisticates of the Piano," over CBC and the Mutual Net- works, is perhaps the most popular plano team in Canada. We understand that a double wedding is being planned 'by these boys at some date in ary, and thig should be quite a novel feature in itself, Both Murray and Lou are very much attached to their respective young ladies, who are, by the way, non-professional. ¢ + We dropped in last Sunday to see the Community Sing-Song out at the Century theatre. Stan Francis, the genial M.C. of the program, turned in quite a nice performance. The little surprises that eome in about the mid- dle of the program are somewhat original, Vince Boyd, the man behind the piano, is quite a favorite with the audience in the theatre, and turns 3 brought' fame and fortune to their, "Plano Team's Double Wedding -- Febru-- Community Sing-Song i i 'Around ' The: Dial RADIO HEADLINERS OF THE WEEK It is a little known fact that those four boys known as the Ragamuffins, heard every Monday night at 10:00 o'clock, started their career in a cel lar. The boys scrimped and saved to buy instruments, and what were too expensive for them they made them. selves. Between them they play two clarinets, two guitars, a bass fiddle, and a collection of pots, pans, wash- boards and tin horns, and belleve me, they make music out of it. On top of all this, George Boyd, the tin horn ex- pert, imitates a trumpet and does a choice bit of singing. To say nothing | of the vocal trios and quartets that the boys have arranged. Harvey Tem- plar, Alfy Enning and Tommy Ell. well, constitute the rémaining mem- bera'of the organization. About a year and; a, half ago the boys were taken in f&w by Wally Armour, conductor of » Pond's program, and after much rk he has produced a smart musi ~~ band with just these four boys. $ Sl. [J [J LJ] Aired Six Thousand Amateurs ~The Good Humor Amateur Show, heard every Sunday at 12:30 over an eastern network, is blazing ahead, bringing to the microphone new voices and new novelties. It is mow about one year since Good Humor started -the amateur contests, and in that time approximately six thousand amateurs have been auditioned, and approxi mately three hundred have been-pre- sented to radio listeners, In the next few weeks the Good Humor people will conduct the final contests, the winner of which will be sent to Holly- wood for screen and voice tests, From what we have seen of this talent, we feel that the lucky one to be sent down, will make a good stab at suc: cess in the glamor city of the world. There still may be an opportunity for you to take part. Just send your ap- plication for an audition" to Good in ora of CFRB or CKCL, Humor, Toronto, ~~. of one room measuring 16 ft. by 11 ft. been sold. Workmen are still breaking months after it burned down. up the metallic wreckage of the able. Case dismissed, in a sparkling piece of solo work dur- British housewives buy something ; ing the program. The tickets are free, | like 1,600,000,000 tins of foodstuffs A--C and all are welcome, every year. ; i Still At Work on Ruins of Crystal Palace on rr Tr oe 3 db A g 7 58 4 1 10h 19 ¥ 1g & ] SE famed Crystal Palace in London, The smallest English inn consists It is the Smith's Arms, Godman- stone, near Dorchester,. and has just T rying to Return Land to Indians Weary Homesteaders in 'Dust Bowl" Area Are Willing to Sell Out : Discouraged, weather-beaten home- steaders of New Mexico proposed to give their land back to the Indians, Several score work-hardened set- tlers met with blanketed Navajo in a big pow-wow at the white man's kiva at Crown Point, N.M., uniting efforts to get thé Great White Fa- ther in! Washington to buy up the high, . wind-blown plateau homestead lands and present them to the Navajo. To the Indian, success would mean a return nearer "Dinetah"--the sa- cred, immemorial homeland of the Navajo in North Central New Mexi- 0, To many a white homesteader, it would mean a chance to sell out lands on which he has battled heat, drought, bitter cold, dying range and all the pioneering vicissitudes. «The immediate goal of this unique . association of Indian and paleface is passage. in .Congress .of the Navajo boundary: bill, . The measure would add approximately 260,000 acres to the Navajo reservation--land now "checkerboarded" in alternate strips of public domain, homestead lands and Indian holdings, y Sentenced To Life RR-------- Nick Megugorac, 19, is the youngest person to be sentenced to life im- prisonment in Los Angeles, Cal, in 10 years. Patients Vote in the First Soviet Election . Copfined to a hospital in Moscow, Russia, Mrs. ~~ 7. Khodakova casts her vote in the first general Soviet election. . 4 KS 5 e tars An ou KS of Kg KS We Ki By A. R, WEIR ), & WHAT THE STARS FORETELL FOR THOSE BORN ON X Kd JANUARY 7, 8,9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Xt RS KA KS * kk KS KS : IX J If the date of your birth is listed above, CAPRICORNUS is your Zodi- » 4 ac sign. This makes the White Onyx and Moonstone your lucky stones Jo; % and black or very dark blue your lucky colour. It also suggests that x 1% you should marry one born between August 21st and September 20th; KS Jo! Dec. 21 and January 20 or April 21 to May 20, cr one who has the wo moon in Capricornus. Capricornians usually live to a great age and ol are zealous and diligent people as a rule. % Q ne YOUR OWN BIRTH DATE: 4 Kd JANUARY 7--Your viewpoint is usually serious. You take life seri- a KS ously. You take people seriously. You take your troubles much too 2 IX seriously. Try to cultivate optimism. This should be a successful and 4 Ki prosperous year for you--there should be more stability in your life. X & 2% towards others. You important changes are 'indicated in your business affairs and all indica- » ) tions are good. KS Ka JANUARY 9--Indications are that you have let yourself get into a 0% % financially is indicated for you. Wi yourself. The year is good fer social affairs and also for love. Jo i Relatives will benefit you, Business affairs should be excellent. X ! JANUARY 11--Much happiness should come your way this year, If 15 you are single you may marry. You do not make friends.easily but KS Kd should cultivate a more friendly attitude toward others. Wo Ki JANUARY 12--Ycur financ'al affairs this year should have a big in- KS ' fluence on your later life, It should 'be a prosperous period. Your wo health will wll also be lucky in love, A wt socially you consider % You may allow yourself to get into a rut, 5) A, pe It you birth date is not listed above and you would like a horoscope ne n! for any birth date in the year, or if you would like a complete personal BO OOODDADDODAIIOODLIIHHHX RX IIHXIXNIOOOOOOCOOLOLOLL % JANUARY 8--You are very affectionate, very loving and very kind » % hearted yet no one is aware of this, You are too %W secretive about your mations spd even told and selfish in your manner. ould be much more demonstrative. ' rut. Why? It is important to success that one should keep pace with ®% progress, Capricornians usually amass Deas and steadily and patiently industrious. e good and a pleasant holiday is indicated. KS lest your natural thrift becomes meanness. ) J ) JANUARY 13--A considerable improvement is shown in your finan- »% % cial affairs this year also impcrtant news from a long distance. You X%! In buginess you have great ambitions but our family all you require. This is not good. uiet, dignified and great wealth when % JANUARY 10--You are sincere but selfish." You 'are zealous and dili- Js iW gent but melancholy and introspective. %! horoscope for any date listed above, send 10¢ to A. R. Weir, 73 Adelaide ,% St. W., Toronto, Please print your name, address and birth date plainly. K OO OOOO OORHXHXAXAXIODBOOOOOOOIIXXIORNXXX INNA XX Some very ,& they are An unexpected gain Do not Live so much alone with »% Be careful %!, General compulsory pasteurization of milk was forecast in a recent i address by Hon. Harold J. Kirby, Min. ister of Health, in which the Minister declared that increased consumption of milk yecessitated further steps for = protection of the supply. The new and far-reaching licy has béen approved by Premier' Hep- burn and the Gabinet, and will be ex- plained in detail in further radio ad- dresses which Mr, Kirby will make ia the near future. : Pointing to the number of diseases believed to be communicated by up protected milk, he sail pasteurization was a known and tried protective which, though in use in over sixty ur- ban municipalities, still was not ap- plied as generally as it should be, "It 13 too much to expect that vol. untary action by the public in a mat. ter of this kind can alone be -elfec- tive," he said, "Official support is ap- parently necessary, and steps are be- ing taken to change the existing logis- lation to ensure more adequate protec- tion for the 'milk consumer," He sald he had been "more than impressed," in reviewing activities of the departmept during the last year, "by the large number of instances in which typhoid fever, undulant fev- er, summer dlarrhoea and other dis. eases which are readily trans ! by milk.appear to occur With' 3 regularity as a result of the {nade- quacy of the present safeguards.' Pasteurization, he said, was effec- tive in destroying all disease germs which might be transmitted through milk, and "would eliminate milk as a factor in the spread of communicable disease. "It did not interfere with the food value or other desirable-propers tles of the milk." . Seek Spanish Gold Buried 400 Years Dutch Engineer Will Attempt Div- ing For Sunken Treasure of Island of Mull Nearly 400 years ago the Duque . Florenca, a galleon of the Spanish Ar-:~ mada, was destroyed off Tobermory harbor, Isle of Mull. She-is said to have carried to her grave untold treas- ure, including 30,000,000 gold ducats minted when Philip of Spain was at war with England's Queen Elizabeth, Whether the story is fact or fiction wlll be determined shortly by Herr Van Wiener, Dutch engineer and ine vontor of a new type of diving appar- atus, who has obtained permission to raise the hulk, on $odas Where Galleon Went Down Down through the years the search for the treasure has been pursued and yaluable articles are reported to have been recovered near th spo? where the galleon is believed to have gone dowil, One haul bought a piece of plate in gold and silver, valued-- at thousands of dollars, Coins, daggers, scabbards and cannon balls have also been brought to the surface.. The Duque Florenca is said to haye been driven into St. George's channel by the storm that scattered the Arma- da. Reaching the Isle of Mull, the vessel took on large quantities = of stores and sailed away before the fis. landers were paid. * According to tho islanders; a Garing- --- Highlander managed fo get aboard and light a fuse leading to the gun- powder magazine. He plunged over- board a few minutes before the ship was shattered by the blast, Fatal "Tool Chest In Bovine Chest Cow Had Penchant For Eating Machinery A cow, Robert Trigg of the Fourth Concession, Whitby Township, dis- covered, can be peculiar at times. When bossy died, Trigg was at a loss the understand her disease says The Toronto Giobe and Mal, A post-mortem revealed that bossy was carrying around a miniature tool chest in her chest. More than a hun- dred metal articles, including nails, hay-wire, small bolts and scrap iron, were found, enough material to make a cream separator and then some. Trigg is at a loss to understand the bovine penchant for machinery. "There was no sound of loose ma- chinery," explained the owner. 'She just become bloated and died." Onions For Love! Except as edibles, we do not re- gard our vegetables very highly, but in Ancient Greece cabbages were sacred and oaths were sworn on them in courts of justice. The onion was used as a love-symbol, just as our mistletoe is to-day, and houses wera disinfected by it. It was also put into sick rooms to attract disease, just as it is placed in newly-painted houses now to take away the -smell of fresh paint, : People often wonder why it was that the Welsh adopted the leek as their national emblem; the reason is that it showd u Cymric colours,